The purpose of this study is to identify potential profile types based on career aspirations, job fit, organizational fit, and major relevance, and to verify differences in residual degree for each type. To this end, we conducted a latent profile anal...
The purpose of this study is to identify potential profile types based on career aspirations, job fit, organizational fit, and major relevance, and to verify differences in residual degree for each type. To this end, we conducted a latent profile analysis and a one-way analysis of variance to identify differences between the latent profile types. For data analysis, latent profile analysis used Mplus 6.0, and for all other analyses, SPSS 22.0 As a research tool, data collected from the 2019 Korea Technology Education University Graduates and Business Employment Survey" of the Korea Institute of Technology and Education was used." The data collection from the survey was conducted by e-mail and telephone for about a month in October 2019, with 697 graduates being recovered. In this study, 477 people were analyzed using data collected from this survey, excluding 200 who responded uniformly. The main results of this study are: First, the latent profile analysis identified four latent profile types (low aspirations-very low fit, low aspirations-low fit, high aspirations-high fit, and high aspirations-very high fit). Second, the four latent profiles showed significant differences in the degree of residual, followed by the highest aspirations-very high fit group, the highest aspirations-high fit group, the lowest aspirations-low fit, and the lowest aspirations-very low fit.
The implications of the results obtained from this study are as follows.
First, career or job change counseling for graduates of engineering departments should help them explore whether the jobs and skills required by the company fit well, understand the desires, values and values they want in their work, and explore whether they match the values presented by the company. Accordingly, it would be effective to intervene in areas that do not fit well or to help them get to a better job. Second, the results of the latent profile type were relatively small in the difference in career aspirations or major relevance compared to job fit or organizational fit.
Accordingly, it will be more effective to explore job fit or organizational fit first when consulting career paths for graduates of public engineering departments.